Finished Tattoo

Long time no post!! Whoops that is slack of me!
Every time I go to sit down and write a blog post lately something distracts me and then it never gets done.
Not that anything to interesting has been happening in my life, really just the same old same old.

One thing that did happen that is  worth blogging about, I got my tattoo finished! I love the final result. It looks beautiful!

 (The colours are slightly brighter than it shows in this pic)

I'm now 600 grams off my next 10 kilo (so total of 20 kilos) goal!

Oh and in other weight loss news, I'm doing Round 2 of 2010 Michelle Bridges 12WTB program. It kicks off on Monday. I'm a little nervous about the menu plan, I can be pretty fussy when it comes to food LOL The exercise side of it I have no worries about, over the past 16 weeks I have become a bit of a workout junkie. I love getting into the gym and smashing away my frustrations of the day.
Speaking of which, when I started my diet lifestyle change back in January I couldn't jog to save my life. Today I jogged 2 km on the treadmill!! Beating my previous best effort of 1.25 km :) So proud of myself!!

Time to make a birthday cake and resist eating the off cuts!!!

Finally got it!

My 10 kilo weight loss reward that is.....

Blah excuse my horrible skin, its not liking the oiliness of the constant application of Bepanthen cream.

Not quite finished, still have the shading in the stem of the feathers to do and the round part of the top of the feathers is to be coloured in.

This wasn't what I had planned on getting. I actually had a swirly outline peacock design all ready to go but cam across a peacock design that I fell in love with and got permission of the designer to use so decided I didn't want two peacock tattoos.
When I saw this design I fell in love. Its perfect! It represents me finally starting to see myself as the beautiful person I am :)

I'm booked in on the 15th go get it finished, hopefully by then I will of reached my 20 kilo goal (I'm sitting on 17 kilos lost) so I can book in for my next tattoo reward :) :)

Weight loss update

I love going to gym every night. It's funny how quickly it has just become routine. It really helps wash sweat away the stress and tensions of the day.
But I tell you what, I'm really struggling to resisting all those yummy looking Eater eggs filling the supermarkets!

Monday was weigh in day and I was surprised by what the scales were telling me (yes I gave into one or more small chocolate bunnies) that I got off and on them about 4 times. I had lost 2.6 kilos bringing me to a total of 13 kilos in 8 weeks!!

Weighing in

This is why I prefer to walk outside rather than inside on a treadmill....

 View from one side of the lake on our last lap

Today was weigh in day and this week was a great week I lost 2.9 kilos which got me to my first 10 kilo goal.

Which means I get my first reward....which I will post about another day :)

Good bye 10.2 kilos, not sorry to see you go and I wont be seeing you again :P

That's going to hurt tomorrow.

I think the friend I go walking with is trying to kill me!

I few weeks ago I mentioned heading to one of our local parks (Rosalind Park) because it has a few hills and steps,which would be good to add to our exercise routine

Well tonight she took that suggestion one step further!

Behind the park there is an oval which like most ovals and has a grand stand. Its not a big grand stand but its elevated by 20 steep steps (which by the way there are 4 lots of them). We walked around the oval then run up and down each lot (remember there is 4 of them) of steps, then back around the oval and then again up and down each lot of steps.
So in total we walked 9 laps of the oval and jogged 8 lots of  4x 20steps
So that is a total of around 9 kilometers and 640 steps

BUT it didn't end there, no the torture wasn't over yet. At the top of the park, where we had parked the car there is a poppet head. She  made us walk to the top and back down again. All 124 steps!! OUCH!

Rosalind Park Poppet Head Lookout

Yes the view from the top was worth is but,

OUCH! Its going to hurt tomorrow!!

Well hello there

Long time no post.  Firstly due to a bit of a downer and then due to kicking myself up the ass and getting myself busy thus getting myself out of that downer.

You may of noticed I didn't finish the January photo challenge. Well I half did and half didn't. I DID take the photos I just haven't uploaded them yet. I will get around to doing it very soon though.

So what has been taking up all my time? I started to move my ass and lose weight!
A few weeks ago I really looked in the mirror, like stood naked after my shower and had a good hard look. What I saw made me sad, angry and disgusted. I had become what I had always said I wouldn't... FAT
I was the heaviest I have ever been and it wasn't a good feeling.
At first it got me really depressed, hence my downer. But after a week or so with the help of friend that also wants to lose weight I got myself into the head space I needed.
I started the 1 million kilo challenge on the 29th of January so have been making up healthy meals and getting myself off the couch and moving. I have been walking every night with a girlfriend for the past week, still hurts afterwards but we are getting there.
I'm not a huge fan of the meal plan, I find the breakfast way to much so I have just been replacing it with either fruit and yogurt or making a smoothie. lunch I have just been having a salad wrap (rye ones) and dinner has been a few of their recipes or just meat and veg.
I'm really just using it to record my weight loss and keep myself motivated.

I'm happy to report I have lost a total of 3.3 kilos this week  *happy dance*

 I still have a long way to go (about 40kilos)  but I CAN DO THIS!  

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